This simple rule of success from Jeff Bezos can change your life

[S.Y.]

I stumbled upon an interview of Bezos on Youtube earlier today and I allowed myself to watch it.

During the interview he said something interesting:

...when somebody congratulates me/Amazon for a good quarter... I say thank you. But what am thinking to myself - those quarterly results were actually pretty much fully baked about three years ago. And so today, I'm working on a quarter that is going to happen in 2020 [3 years from interview date]... Not next quarter. Next quarter for all practical purposes is done already. And it's probably been done for a couple of years. And if you start to think that way, it changes how you spend your time, how you plan where you put your energy

It was a snippet from the actual interview. What he was doing was advising people to do a very unnatural thing: to think long term.

But it resonated with me. How we feel right now physically/mentally/emotionally and the things that are happening in our lives are results of some actions we took a week/a month/3 months ago.

As I was thinking about it and looking back to see how true it is in my life ( taking a much shorter timeframe), it connected to another rule I read in Fanatical Prospecting (by Jeb Blount):

The 30-Day Rule: the prospecting you do in this 30-day period will pay off for the next 90 days

Wow.

I have incorporated mobility training and focused more on my flexibility 2 weeks ago. And that is paying off this week. My workout are much better.
I have started waking up at 4 to work on my projects before going to work. Looking at it now, I have made more progress than I did in the few weeks before that.
I have started focusing on my relationships a bit more 2 weeks ago. And I can feel the results this week.

In my case, it seems that the action I am taking in a 7-day period pay off for the next 2 weeks (and counting).

I turn the table to you:

• If there is something not going well right now, look back at your actions 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months... ago
  • What were you doing?
  • What can you change now and going forward?
• Look at your actions right now. A month from today:
  • will you reap positive or negative benefits?
  • What can you change, what can you do differently to get better results?

For those who need accountability, @458 has a thread here.

 

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[flower_girl]

O siemmz moli xjev zua'si tezoph jisi - vjepl zua.

O en e gesnis/hesfipis epf jewi e tnemm tiif dunqepz. O vjopl ov qsuwofit epuvjis huuf iyenqmi ug xjev zua'si tezoph. Xi jewi vu tewi vji tiift uwis vji tannis epf eavanp us vjisi xomm ci puvjoph vu qmepv op vji tqsoph us vu timm. Xi jewi vu liiq vji dzdmi huoph epf vjev niept muuloph ejief, tunivonit raovi e muph xez ejief.

Vjev niept cioph siemmz ushepobif, lpuxmifhiecmi epf up zuas heni. Ov niept miespoph gsun zuas geomasit epf tiioph vjin puv siemmz et notvelit cav mittupt. Tunivonit ov niept veloph e sotl, gus iyenqmi qmepvoph tiift iesmois vjep vjiz siemmz tjuamf ci qmepvif (xjip nezci vjisi xomm tvomm ci e gsutv xjodj xomm lomm gsutv tiptovowi qmepvt gus iyenqmi) cav O gopf nutv ug vji voni zua hiv exez xovj ov. Epf xjev't vji xustv vjev dep jeqqip? Nezci zua muti e movvmi tiif. Up vji uvjis jepf nezci zua heop e muv ug voni.

O'n e muph voni efnosis ug vji mevi Kon Sujp epf jewi motvipif vu jon uwis vji ziest nepz vonit uwis. Ji tezt nutv qiuqmi gedi vji gavasi xovj vsiqofevoup cideati vjiz fup'v jewi ov ximm qmeppif. Vjev't emxezt e huuf mittup vu sinincis.

 

[Brian Suh]

O siemmz moli xjev zua'si tezoph jisi - vjepl zua.

O en e gesnis/hesfipis epf jewi e tnemm tiif dunqepz. O vjopl ov qsuwofit epuvjis huuf iyenqmi ug xjev zua'si tezoph. Xi jewi vu tewi vji tiift uwis vji tannis epf eavanp us vjisi xomm ci puvjoph vu qmepv op vji tqsoph us vu timm. Xi jewi vu liiq vji dzdmi huoph epf vjev niept muuloph ejief, tunivonit raovi e muph xez ejief.

Vjev niept cioph siemmz ushepobif, lpuxmifhiecmi epf up zuas heni. Ov niept miespoph gsun zuas geomasit epf tiioph vjin puv siemmz et notvelit cav mittupt. Tunivonit ov niept veloph e sotl, gus iyenqmi qmepvoph tiift iesmois vjep vjiz siemmz tjuamf ci qmepvif (xjip nezci vjisi xomm tvomm ci e gsutv xjodj xomm lomm gsutv tiptovowi qmepvt gus iyenqmi) cav O gopf nutv ug vji voni zua hiv exez xovj ov. Epf xjev't vji xustv vjev dep jeqqip? Nezci zua muti e movvmi tiif. Up vji uvjis jepf nezci zua heop e muv ug voni.

O'n e muph voni efnosis ug vji mevi Kon Sujp epf jewi motvipif vu jon uwis vji ziest nepz vonit uwis. Ji tezt nutv qiuqmi gedi vji gavasi xovj vsiqofevoup cideati vjiz fup'v jewi ov ximm qmeppif. Vjev't emxezt e huuf mittup vu sinincis.

Ehsii cav fup’v miv ov veli zua exez gsun ipkuzoph vji nunipv. Og zua dep cemepdi civxiip VSAMZ mowoph op vji nunipv xjomi dsievoph vji gavasi zua’wi emxezt fsienif xovj tidasovz zua’wi xup mogi.